minimum wage

Increases in Delaware, Illinois and Rhode Island will bring those states' minimums to $15 an hour, meaning 10 states and Washington, D.C., will now have $15 or higher minimum wage.

Some red states approved ballot measures to raise the minimum wage and require employers to provide paid sick time to their workers.

Oklahomans will vote on whether to raise the minimum wage in almost two years.

This Week in Oklahoma Politics panel discusses the vote on State Question 832 being delayed to June 2026, the recount for Tulsa mayor ending with no significant changes and more legal issues for State Superintendent Ryan Walters.

State Question 832 would gradually increase the minimum wage until it reaches $15 an hour in 2029. Then, it would increase every year with the cost of living.

The Oklahoma Supreme Court says that State Question 832 will have a 10-day protest period in an opinion released last week. The opinion offers clarity about whether the period should be 10, 20 or 90 days long — a conundrum caused by new laws that conflict with current statutes and each other.

Supporters of an effort to increase the state’s minimum wage secured enough signatures to get the issue on the ballot, organizers said Monday.

Supporters of a state question to raise the minimum wage in Oklahoma received $1.84 million in contributions through the first half of the year.

According to data released by the National Low Income Housing Coalition, a minimum wage worker has to work an average of 88 hours per week to afford a one-bedroom rental apartment in Oklahoma.

Fifteen years ago this Wednesday, the federal minimum wage went up from $6.55 per hour to $7.25. It hasn't budged since.